Police Service of Northern Ireland
The
Police Servive of Northern Ireland is a
police force that covers
Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the
Royal Ulster Constabulary, created on Sunday 4th November 2001, as a result of a Policing Review set up under the
Belfast Agreement. This agreement, which helped to end the
Irish Republican Army's three-decade-long violent campaign against the Union of
Northern Ireland and
Great Britain, required the creation of an Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, which became known as the
Patten Commission after its chairman,
Chris Patten.
Among the features of the PSNI are a policy of recruiting equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics, and the name and symbols of the organisation, which are designed not to offend either community.
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